Couple, suspect in hospital with injuries from gunfire

A couple and a male acquaintance were wounded in a shooting early Friday just west of the Strip.

The shooting happened about 4 a.m. in an apartment at the Emerald Suites complex, 4777 Cameron St., across from The Orleans.

Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Jay Rivera said the two victims, a husband and wife, let the man into their apartment, where an argument escalated into gunfire. He said the suspect is an acquaintance of the couple.

All three were hospitalized Friday. The woman was in critical condition, but Rivera said the conditions of her husband and the suspect weren’t available.

Rivera said investigators have not been able to learn additional details surrounding the shooting because all three were still sedated as of 11:30 a.m. It wasn’t clear whether the suspect was shot with his handgun or the husband and wife had their own weapon or weapons. whether a man who walked into a Henderson hospital early Friday with serious burns was injured in a fire near downtown Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Fire Department crews responded about 3:45 a.m. to a fire in a shed behind a home at 1501 S. Fifth Place, near Las Vegas Boulevard South and Charleston Boulevard.

No victims were found when firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze.

But the department later learned that a man had walked into St. Rose Dominican Hospital, de Lima campus, and told the staff that he had been burned in a shed fire.

The hospital is more than 14 miles from the scene of the fire.

The man suffered serious burns, the department said, and was being transferred to University Medical Center’s burn unit.

A firefighter also was taken to the hospital for an ankle injury, the department said.

The cause of the fire, which did not spread to the house, was still under investigation Friday.